Montclair, NJ – The Montclair State swimming and diving teams close out the Metropolitan Championships on Sunday.
 
MEET INFO
The preliminaries will begin at 9:30 am with the finals at 5:30 pm and will be held at the Sonny Werblin Pool on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ.
 
EVENT SCHEDULE
200-backstroke
100-freestyle
200-breaststroke
200-butterfly
Women 1-meter dive
1,650-freestyle (finals only)
400-freestyle relay
 
PROBABLE ENTRIES
200-backstroke
EMILY ROTHAMEL
ERIN BARRETT
SKYE SENER
SOPHIA SHOPOVICK
MOLLY MOORE
DENNIS DELARGY
GREG KARBACK
CHRYSTIAN MUHLEISEN
 
100-freestyle
LIDIA BOGUSLAWSKA
JULIANA SKOPP-CARDILLO
SOPHIA SHOPOVICK
SOPHIA CIARAVINO
JULIA WEINREB
LUCAS GOMES
JOSH ZITOMER
SCOTT ACKERSON
SANTIAGO VANEGAS
 
200-breaststroke
ABBY BROCK
JACQUELINE GRAYSON
Juliet DiPasquale
BRANDON DO
SPENSER DUBOIS
SANTIAGO VANEGAS
 
200-butterfly
MOLLY GRAY
GIANNA ANTONELLI
Juliet DiPasquale
SARAH BENT
TYLER DORSETT
JOHN ENGLERT
 
1-meter dive (women)
EMMA BOWERS
SABRINA ROBINSON
 
1,650-freestyle
TAYLOR WADDLETON
JULIE TIEDEMANN
RYAN KAPPES
 
THURSDAY RECAP
The 800-freestyle relay was the only event that was contested on Thursday. Swimming in the second heat, the women's team took fourth out of 10 teams. The foursome of JULIE TIEDEMANN, TAYLOR WADDLETON, JULIANA SKOPP-CARDILLO, and EMILY ROTHAMEL turned in a time of 7:56.24. They took over 20 seconds off their seed time and collected 52 team points. The men's side also swam in the relay, placing sixth overall. The quartet of LUCAS GOMES, GREG KARBACK, SCOTT ACKERSON, and TYLER DORSETT clocked in at 7:11.02, just a shade over a second of our fifth.
 
FRIDAY RECAP
Freshmen JULIE TIEDEMANN and JULIANA SKOPP-CARDILLO highlighted the Red Hawks' performances in Friday night's finals. Tiedemann placed sixth in the 500 freestyle posting a time of 5:16.92, with Skopp-Cardillo placing in the same spot in the 50 freestyle (24.66). Sophomore LIDIA BOGUSLAWSKA won the "B" final and finished ninth overall, clocking in at 24.67 seconds, with ABBY BROCK placing 15th with a time of 25.36 seconds. For the men, RYAN KAPPES swam 4:44.50 in the finals to post an eighth-place finish in the 500 meters. Freshman LUCAS GOMES was also eighth as he clocked in at 20.90 seconds in the 50 freestyle. SANTIAGO VANEGAS finished 18th in the 200 IM (1:58.09). Gomes anchored the 200 medley relay that flirted with the school record in the event before falling short in a fifth-place finish. Gomes, Dennis Delargy, SPENSER DUBOIS, and JOHN ENGLERT put together a time of 1:34.14, two-tenths shy of the mark set at the 2017 Metropolitan Championships.

SATURDAY RECAP
SPENSER DUBOIS notched an NCAA Division III "B" qualifying time in the 100 breaststroke and reset the school record twice to highlight the third day of action. Dubois became the first Red Hawk male swimmer to record an NCA qualifying time since Steven Roth did it in the 100 butterfly at the 2017 Metropolitan Championships. Dubois began the day by breaking the school standard with a time of 56.15 in the morning preliminaries. In the final, Steven Kushner of TCNJ would win out by .06 seconds as Dubois swam 55.72 dropping the school mark by two seconds from the start of the day. Kevin Clauss held the previous mark at 57.74 set in 2019. LUCAS GOMES was sixth in the 100 butterfly posting a time of 50.62 seconds and the women had two in the Top 10 of the 200 freestyle. LIDIA BOGUSLAWSKA was fifth with a time of 1:58.05 with JULIANA SKOPP-CARDILLO finishing 10^th at 1:59.82. ABBY BROCK had an individual Top 5 finish of her own, taking fifth in the 100 breaststroke (1:06.97).

 
TEAMS IN THE FIELD
The Red Hawks will be seeing New Jersey Athletic Conference foes Kean University, Rowan University, The College of New Jersey, Ramapo College, and William Paterson University, but also competing will be the University of Mary Washington, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Roberts Wesleyan College, Sarah Lawrence College, Baruch College, Salisbury University, Hunter College, Mount St. Mary College, SUNY Maritime, and the College of Staten Island.
 
LAST TIME AT METS
After last year's Metropolitan Championships were canceled due to COVID-19, the Red Hawks placed third on the women's side and sixth on the men's side in the 2020 event. Madison Franke was named the Metropolitan Female Swimmer of the Meet after winning the 100-freestyle, 50-freestyle, and the 200-freestyle. Franke set a new school-record time of 1:54.66 in the 200-freestyle, breaking the previous record that had stood for 33 years. EMILY ROTHAMEL notched a first-place time of 2:07.47 in the 200-backstroke and set a school-record time of 58.56 in the 100-back.